No. 3.] Fruit trees. 125^ 



The wax insects were parasited by a minute chalcid fly which 

 was submitted to Mr. William H. Ashmead through Mr. L. 0. 

 Howard, for identification. It proved to be new to science, and has 

 been named Eurycephalus, new genus, E. alcocki, new species. A 

 detailed description of it appears on page 61 ante. 



3. Luperomorpha weisei, Jacoby, n. sp. Family Chrysomelidse. 

 Order Coleoptera. 



In August, 1900, Mr. W. H. P. Driver of Purulia, sent some 

 chrysomelid beetles to the Museum which he reports as destroying 

 all his mango trees. 



On examination they proved to be Luperomorpha weisei, Jacoby, 

 n. sp.,* on comparing them with named specimens by Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby in the collection of the Indian Museum, from Ranchi, Bengal, 

 from whence the species was originally described. 



4. Chlumetra transversa. Walker, Family Noctuidae. Sub- 

 Order Phalsense. Order Lepidoptera. Plate xiii, figs, ia, larva ; 

 lb, pupa, 1 imago ; all enlarged. 



The moth Chlumetra transversa, Walker, was found in Dehra 

 Dun in October, 1900, boring into the tips of young shoots of the 

 mango tree, thereby the shoots are killed back. This moth has 

 only hitherto been recorded fromGanjam on the East Coast of Indi a 

 and from Ceylon. The figures show the larva, pupa and moth 

 enlarged. 



5. Diapromorpha tnelanopus, Lacordaire. Family Chrysomelidse. 

 Order Coleoptera. 



On 29th August, 1 90 1, Mr. A. C. Hartless, the Curator of the 

 Botanic Garden, Darjiling, forwarded to the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, some beetles which he found to be destructive to mango 

 and lichi trees at Kalimpong, Sikkim, in the Government Experi- 

 mental Fruit Garden, of which he has charge. He wrote: — 



" They come in swarms whenever the sun shines, and pierce the tissue of the 

 youngest growing points and leaves of mangoes and lichis which at once shrivel 

 up and completely die off. When not feeding on the trees they seem to remain in 

 the jungle and grass round about, so I am having everything cleared about the 

 orchard so as to offer them no protection. We have killed hundreds by hand 

 picking. It appears not to eat the tissues but to suck the juice, and they must also 

 inject something poisonous, as around the punctures the tissues quickly shrivel up." 



With regard to Mr. Harness's note above quoted, that these beetles 

 appear to suck the juice of the leaves and shoots of the fruit trees, 



* Annates de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, vol. xlii, page 180 



(1898), 



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